wombat

• whom-batt (obsolete)

Borrowed from Dharug wumbat.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑmˌbæt/
• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈwɒm.bæt/

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• Rhymes: -ɑmbæt, -ɒmbæt
• Rhymes: -æt

wombat (plural wombats)

1. A herbivorous, burrowing marsupial of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.
   • 2025 March 13, Hilary Whiteman, “US tourist filmed running off with baby wombat flees Australia after visa threat”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 14 March 2025:

     An American tourist who was reportedly filmed picking up and running off with a wild baby wombat fled Australia after officials threatened to cancel her visa in a firestorm of criticism over the incident. […] It’s not clear when the video was shot, nor the location, but it was at night on what appears to be a country road somewhere in southeastern Australia, where most wombats reside.

2. (Australia, slang) A slow and stupid person; a dullard.

• vombatid

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɔm.bɑt/

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wombat m (plural wombats, diminutive wombatje n)

1. wombat

Borrowed from English wombat.

• IPA^(key): /wɔ̃.bat/, /vɔ̃.bat/

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wombat m (plural wombats)

1. wombat

   Synonym: (dated) phascolome

• “wombat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from English wombat.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwombat/ [ˈwom.bat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ombat
• Syllabification: wom‧bat

wombat (plural wombat-wombat)

1. wombat (any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae)

wombat

1. wombat

Orthographic borrowing from English wombat, from Dharug wambad, wambaj, or wambag.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔm.bat/

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• Rhymes: -ɔmbat
• Syllabification: wom‧bat

wombat m animal

1. wombat

• “wombat”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

wombat m (plural wombats)

1. alternative form of vombate

Borrowed from English wombat.

wombat m (plural wombați)

1. wombat